RAWALPINDI: Awami Muslim League chief and former federal interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed says Bilawal has learnt on the last day of the assemblies that the government has failed to make the institutions work within their [constitutional] limits. In his message on the social media on Tuesday, he taunted Bilawal that he remembered the Charter of Democracy 48 hours before the expiry of the term of the National Assembly.
Rashid wrote on the social media website X that those who boasted that they would bring dollars and investments had sent inflation sky-high. “They have not yet decided whom to entrust the job of leading the nuclear-armed country with 240 million population during the transition, and for how long,” he added.
The former minister said inaction of the Supreme Court would ruin everything. Faces behind the curtain would be exposed. The constitution and the law would be subservient to them. Coalition parties had everything but unity, he continued. Rashid said naming the caretaker prime minister could go to the parliamentary committee or the Election Commission [as the government has not yet reached a consensus].
He said 240 million people were being treated like sheep and goats. Elections were around the corner, but the Election Commission had yet to demarcate constituencies and prepare [electoral rolls] based on the new census. He expressed the fear that the government could burden power consumers with Rs144 billion.
The former interior minister predicted that the dollar would soon soar past 300 mark. The poor would continue crying. “Unless the common man is involved in national affairs, there will be no turnaround in the political, economic and financial conditions of the country,” Rashid concluded. –Agencies
